The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.

                                
                                  Do þe nu þurrh þe sellfenn dun,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh icc unnderrstannde,
                                
                                  Þatt aȝȝ þe deofell eggeþþ menn
                                
                                  Dunnwarrd & towarrd eorþe,
                                
                                  & towarrd eorþliȝ þingess lusst,
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                                  & towarrd alle sinness.
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tatt he seȝȝde þuss
                                
                                  Till Crist uppo þe temmple,
                                
                                  Do þe nu þurrh þe sellfenn dun
                                
                                  & þurrh þin Goddcunndnesse,
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                                  Ȝiff þatt tu Godess Sune arrt wiss
                                
                                  Þatt cumenn arrt to manne,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh mann unnderrstanndenn maȝȝ,
                                
                                  Þatt himm wass waȝȝ & ange
                                
                                  Off þatt he nohht ne wisste off Crist,
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                                  Noff hiss goddcunnde kinde.
                                
                                  & þurrh þatt tatt he drohh þær forþ
                                
                                  Þe bokess lare & seȝȝde,
                                
                                  Forr writenn iss o boc, þatt he
                                
                                  Wel hafeþþ seȝȝd & cwiddedd
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                                  Forrlannge till hiss enngleþeod
                                
                                  Off þe þatt arrt himm deore,
                                
                                  Off þatt teȝȝ shulenn ȝemenn þe
                                
                                  Att alle þine nede,
                                
                                  & tatt teȝȝ shulenn takenn þe
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                                  Bitwenenn hemm wiþþ hande,
                                
                                  Swa þatt tu nohht ne shallt tin fo¯¯t
                                
                                  Uppo þe staness hirrtenn,
                                
                                  Þærþurrh mann unnderrstanndenn maȝȝ
                                
                                  Þatt all hiss þohht iss æfre

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Title: The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.
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Publication: Oxford :: At the Clarendon Press,; 1878.

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